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Health Policy Picks Health Policy Picks is a monthly selection of recent publications, such as technical reports, conference proceedings, and other material produced by organizations and government agencies that conduct health care policy analysis and research. Health Policy Picks is a partnership between KaiserEDU.org and the New York Academy of Medicine Library's Grey Literature Collection. October 2008 Picks Health Systems Kaiser Family Foundation, “Healthcare and 2008 Election Briefs” National Health Policy Forum, “Covering All Kids: States Setting the Pace” The Synthesis Project, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, “Physician Self-referral and Physician-owned Specialty Facilities” Medicare Commonwealth Fund, “Continuing Cost of Privatization: Extra Payments to Medicare Advantage Plans in 2008” U.S. Government Accountability Office, “Medicare: Thousands of Medicare Providers Abuse the Federal Tax System: Report to the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, Committee on Homeland” Minority Health Families USA Foundation, “Unequal Burden: The True Cost of High-deductible Health Plans for Communities of Color” IZA, Institute for the Study of Labor, “Race, Ethnicity and the Dynamics of Health Insurance Coverage”   Quality of Care NGA Center for Best Practices, “Quality and Price Transparency as an Element of State Health Reform” The Health Foundation, “Does Public Release of Performance Results Improve Quality of Care?: A Systematic Review” Uninsured AcademyHealth; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation State Coverage Initiatives, “State Coverage Initiatives: Can a Sales Tax on Medical Services Help Fund State Coverage Expansions?” Heritage Foundation, “State Health Care Reform: A Brief Guide to Risk Adjustment in Consumer-driven Health Insurance Markets” Kaiser Commission on Mediciad and the Uninsured, “The Uninsured: A Primer” Women's Health National Center for Health Statistics, “Recent Trends in Infant Mortality in the United States” National Women's Law Center, “Nowhere to Turn: How the Individual Health Insurance Market Fails Women” View Previous Picks... View previous picks... October 2008 September 2008 August 2008 July 2008 June 2008 May 2008 April 2008 March 2008 February 2008 January 2008 December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 July 2007 June 2007 May 2007 April 2007 March 2007 February 2007 January 2007 December 2006 November 2006 Search Health Policy Picks...   Receive Health Policy Picks and other kaiserEDU.org updates View most recent Grey Literature Report Subscribe to the Grey Literature Report Journal Browser, access to current table of contents of the leading health policy journals Search the Literature, links to searchable databases including peer-reviewed and other health policy publications Government Organizations, listing of useful resources that can be used to find data, policies, and research SmartLinks, "pre-queried" searches on health policy topics from PubMed, Kaisernetwork Daily Report, Google Uncle Sam, Google Scholar, and NY Academy of Medicine Grey Literature Report

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